The Roll of Honour

Category: France

Full Name:   Harold FAGG Nationality: British Rank:  Private Service:  Middlesex Regiment Unit: 13th Battalion Age at Death: 26 Date of Death:  13 September 1918 Service Number:  G/29011 Cemetery:  Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimilles de Calais, France Grave Reference: IV. A. 10. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4025275/FAGG,%20HAROLD%20ERNEST EVERY MAN REMEMBERED:  http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/4025275/ Son of William and Emily Fagg of Wingham, near Canterbury. The grave registration documents state that Harold ‘died of wounds (gas)‘.

Full Name: Jack Taylor Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Regiment: 8th Battalion Age at Death: 22 Date of Death: 18 August 1916 Service Number: G/9192 Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, France Reference: Pier and Face 5 D. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/815073/TAYLOR,%20JACK EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/815073/ Born in Dover, the fifth of six children born to Frederick and Anna Maria Taylor (nee Hopper), Jack was a tram driver before he enlisted in Dover as a Private on 08 Dec 1915, into…

Full Name:   Thomas Sifleet Nationality: British Rank:  Private Service:  East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 1st Battalion Age at Death: 27 Date of Death:  8 December 1917 Service Number:  203960 Cemetery:  Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Memorial Reference: XXXII. D. 11. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/291053/SIFLEET,%20THOMAS EVERY MAN REMEMBERED:  http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/291053/ Son of Henry Sifleet; husband of Kate Sifleet, of IO, Gore Bank, Upchurch, Sittingbourne, Kent. Born at Lower Halstow, Kent. In the 1911 Census Thomas, aged 21, was still living at…

Full Name:   Philip Henry PURSEY Nationality:  Canadian   Rank:  Private Service:  Canadian Pioneers Unit:  2nd Battalion Age at Death:  40 Date of Death:  15 Aug 1917 Service Number:  445152 Cemetery / Memorial:  Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France Reference:  I. H. 12. Military Records:  View Philip’s Attestation Papers – front and back CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/259220/PURSEY,%20PHILIP%20HENRY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/259220/ Philip was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1878 and married Lucy Heyman in Folkestone in April 1898.  The couple emigrated to Canada in 1901…

Full Name:  Edwin Charles PILE Nationality:  British   Rank:  Private Service:  King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Unit:  7th Battalion Age at Death:  19 Date of Death:  21 Aug 1918 Service Number: 27803 Memorials: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France and Pluckley Village War Memorial, Kent, UK Reference:  Panel 8 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/1747716/PILE,%20EDWIN%20CHARLES EVERY MAN REMEMBERED:  http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1747716/ Edward was born in Pluckley, Kent in 1899, the third child of Lewis Pile and his second wife, Eliza Wills.  

    Full Name:  John “Jack” PARKER Nationality:  Australian   Rank:  Second Leiutenant Service:  Australian Infantry (AIF) Unit:  30th Battalion Age at Death:  21 Date of Death:  20 July 1916 Service Number:  572 Cemetery:  Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, France Memorial Reference: III.3.11   John’s Military Service papers: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8005334 Online Memorial: http://www.theage.com.au AIF Project entry: http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=233545 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/721612/PARKER,%20JOHN   EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/721612/ ‘Jack’ was born on 21 August 1896 in Kiama, a township 120 kilometres south of Sydney, New South Wales in…

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